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Alison Gopnik Quotes

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1955

Topics

Travel Phone Content Phone Calls

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

Great Baby Growing Up Generation Up

I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

Children Eyes Hate People End Kind

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Feeling Said Nothing Ability Give

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Childhood Me Mom Strong You Know

I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things.

Best World I Can Know Actor Never

For many years, when I was starring on 'Touched by an Angel,' I produced on a number of television movies for CBS. I have always enjoyed the aspect of bringing something together and multitasking in that way.

Together Angel Television Movies Way

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Music Alone Great People You Take

I don't like the fact that C.F.P.B. exists, I will be perfectly honest with you.

You Will Honest Like Fact Exists

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Teacher I Can Poet Well One Thing

If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.

Listening Week You Fall Run Top

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

Free Think Australia Why Spirit Box

I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.

Blue You Stone Career Go Say

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